And then he lashed out at the Arsenal players for playing "tippy-tappy football" and said they are a "million miles away" from winning the league.

Social media lit up in praise of Scholes because he was breathing "new life" into a job that had become stale.

When was the last time you heard a SkySports commentator say that a player was truly awful? It doesn’t happen.

Yet if you turn on the radio and listen to TalkSport and the likes of Stan Collymore you'll hear him call a player a donkey without batting an eyelid.

Let the Dirty Words Flow

Collymore, Scholes and to a certain extent Gary Neville are starting to make football punditry and commentary a little bit more interesting because they're airing their opinions.

They're touching nerves. They’re saying what’s on everyone’s lips. They’re throwing the disinfectant down the drain and just letting their dirty words flow.

I love dirty words.

Back to poker. There aren’t enough people with an opinion. Or at least it has the feel of a group of people at times afraid to miss out on the check.

Poker literature is becoming boring. Tedious. Repetitive. Commentary is in danger of going the same route.

If Blom makes a howler, we should hear about it.

If a player’s made a howler I want to hear the commentator have an opinion. And he doesn’t have to have "played poker at the highest level" to have an opinion.

That’s utter nonsense.

Take Unconventional Lines

There are some very bright, sharp-witted poker writers and commentators out there. People with a great understanding of the game and the ability to make the mundane seem magical.

Let's let them loose. If they say that a big-name sponsored pro has played a hand like an idiot will the company/site suddenly lose a few players? Of course not.

Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom regularly lose a few million dollars a week online and they're still (fairly) the faces of Full Tilt Poker. So when did being “great” at poker have anything to do with the price of cheese?

Let’s push poker writers and poker commentators to take the Vanessa Selbst line. Push them (and me) to surprise us. To be aggressive.

To take unconventional lines and sometimes look a little stupid while we're at it. It will make our poker world a much more interesting place.

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